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Ti-i-i-i-i-mberrrrrr!


James Taranto notes that the New York Sun lexicon apparently hasn't caught up to 2004 yet:
A Web logger for Time magazine, Ana Marie Cox, reported on November 11 that "a little birdie" had urged her to fact-check the Illinois senator's claims against his kindergarten record.
OK, the term is technically correct, but it still makes me want to grow a beard and put on a plaid flannel shirt.

UPDATE: Oh, I'm a pixeljack and I'm OK, I sleep all night and I work all day!


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Mike (mail):
"You're a web-logger-jack and you're okay..."
12.4.2007 5:28pm
Jack G (mail) (www):
Was it the Bluebird of Hippyness?
12.4.2007 6:13pm
pennywit (mail) (www):
Remember: Newspaper copy editors are iconoclastic, stubborn types who live and die by the AP style manual.

--|PW|--
12.4.2007 8:01pm
Mike (mail):
"I can't find autogyro, Prussia, or Siam in the manual."

AP editor: "Keep looking."

My thanks to the Simpsons.
12.4.2007 9:04pm
TallDave (mail) (www):
In fairness to the Sun, it's a perfectly cromulent word.
12.4.2007 10:44pm

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